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[Superficial Fan]

I (of all people--since I hardly fuck with rock in general) have mentioned Boris here before, but I too am somewhat surprised they don't get mentioned more often. I didn't like any of the three albums they put out this year, however. I tend to like their psychedelic side more than their Heavy Rocks side (not that they don't overlap) but I still didn't care for Attention Please. My favorites are: Smile, Mabuta No Ura, Feedbacker (though it's not something I throw on regularly) and Rainbow. And some EP stuff, I guess, though I'm not very familiar with that--but definitely Floor Shaker.

Oh yeah, and "Party Boy" is the one song of theirs from this year that I like.

[Tokyo Jihad]

Originally Posted by deadgrandma

But, if for some reason you were using "EMF friendly" as a condescending term here (it's really hard to tell cause the band in question is Boris), you can go eat a bag of dicks :-p

'Of course I was being condescending. But I wasn't meaning New Album/Attention Please were bad, just were "pop"ier, more traditional songey-songs, Wata singing.

[TurtleFu]

I haven't heard of Boris. I'll take Jihad's recommendation and check out "New Album" and "Attention Please". Though, I dislike it when I'm introduced to new groups with 15+ albums of material. It's so daunting...

Anyways, I came here to just say:

Joanna Wang - Adult Crap

I would say this is her best song. She's a really great lyricist, her lyrics are really witty, funny, sarcastic, bitchy, etc. And her voice is gorgeous.

[karateexplosion]

Never cared for shoegaze myself. Even Asobi Seksu (who, if I recall, is pretty popular 'round here) I find bland and uninspiring. The entire genre just isn't dynamic enough to hold my attention.

Jamiroquai - Runaway

[Tokyo Jihad]

Originally Posted by TurtleFu

I haven't heard of Boris. I'll take Jihad's recommendation and check out "New Album" and "Attention Please". Though, I dislike it when I'm introduced to new groups with 15+ albums of material. It's so daunting...

Pink, Smile, Feedbacker, Akuma no Uta are their meatier works. Check them out too.

[deadgrandma]

Puscifer- Monsoons

So, I got round to listening to Maynard James Keenan's latest outing, kinda bitter cause I've accepted that it's gonna be a little while longer till Tool's next one (I hope that May release ain't a load of bullshit).

What I didn't expect however, was that this album (Conditions of My Parole- sporting a very funny album cover) was gonna be so amazing! Not a dull track on the whole thing, and nowhere near as self indulgent as previous Puscifer releases, it certainly annihilates V is for Vagina. I imagine this being in my top 10 of 2011, despite it being such a latecomer.

The song I chose to link is "Monsoons" and it it truly beautiful, harkens back to the more intimate moments of A Perfect Circle (Oh, and don't worry, there are some tracks that totally rock out too).

Any Tool/APC/Puscifer fan should get onto it, it will at least hold over until the next APC or Tool eventually surfaces. Good stuff!

[zombiestrip]

Childish Gambino's CAMP album finally arrived today at long last. LOVE THIS ALBUM. I haven't been this enamoured by an album in a long while...

I dunno if you guys listen to rap but if you do, give this guy a shot if you haven't already. His back catalogue, aside from Camp, is all free and up on the Internet.

But yeah, I mean for a line like "So it's 400 Blows to these Truffaut n****s" to be used in a rap track of all things is just brilliance in my mind. I just have a lot of feelings for all things Donald Glover-related. Dude's awesome.

[Carlx]

Gustavo Cerati - Amor Amarillo

The man has (probably had, it's impossible to tell if you know his uncertain and suspended current state) such a master mind for guitars.

[TeslaGuy]

The League Unlimited Orchestra - Love and Dancing

[Carlx]

Nico Muhly - Fast Twitchy Organs